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4 Tips for Organizing a Nonprofit Auction That Drives Impact

Pamela Grow

Get to know your supporters through data analysis and feedback-gathering. Brainstorm an auction item wishlist and divide up sourcing responsibilities based on committee members’ skills and connections. Donor engagement at auctions looks different depending on your target audience’s demographics, preferences, and lifestyles.

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Listening Literacy Skills: What keywords or phrases have brought you some insights?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm passionate about listening - the skills, tools, techniques, and how it translates to continuous improvement of strategy and understanding the value it provides to organization's mission. The most important listening literacy skills are. Seeing the Forest Through The Trees: Pattern analysis and synthesis of findings.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks to express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have debate get in the way of the instructional flow later on. Next, try provocative statements.

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Your Guide to a Nonprofit Self-Audit of Your Marketing Plan

Get Fully Funded

You see, marketing is a cycle of execution, analysis, and tweaking. Invite people into the fold who have a passion for the work and help them identify the best role based on their skills, interests, and availability. A volunteer giving food to your 1,000th recipient. Do your appeals make it easy to give? What’s working?

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Complete a needs analysis: Clearly, you see an urgent need in your community, otherwise you could not be going down this road. Will donors give money to sustain the program? Often, community banks want to help local organizations and give you extra services or waive fees. What need will you address? What is your vision?

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We designed a highly interactive workshop based on Jo Wolfe’s “ NGO Digital Maturity Matrix ,” an assessment tool that enables nonprofits to codify mindsets and skill sets required for moving along the path of digital transformation. We decided to use an understanding exercise, a SWOT analysis related to the topics.

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Need Hands-on Help? NetSquared's Free Workshops Are in Your Community

Tech Soup

Sometimes the best way to get started with a new tool is to have a guide sitting next to you giving directions. Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways June PDH Lunch — Incorporating Green Infrastructure. New Orleans, Louisiana: Glossophobics Anonymous (or How to Hone your Public Speaking Skills).